It probably has a thing on it like a screen saver password - ignore it for X-amount of time and it locks.
I'd also suspect that it falls under the same rules as other encoding/encryption, so every day the code key changes for communication between it and other units... so capture one today, and at midnight it stops working.
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My Guess -
It probably has a thing on it like a screen saver password - ignore it for X-amount of time and it locks.
I'd also suspect that it falls under the same rules as other encoding/encryption, so every day the code key changes for communication between it and other units... so capture one today, and at midnight it stops working.